It is so hard to believe that Dusty and even the announcers thought the Esper deck was favoured. Craig's deck has so many main-board anti-control tools, it is crazy. I guess people under-estimated Flash Creatures? Certainly Voice was not underestimated.
I concur. In addition, I think that Dusty Ochoa is one of those serious players because once Craig sack just for style points, Dusty's like "it can't be countered." No duh, Smartass.
Craig seems a real nice guy, and I was happy he won for many reasons, I play a very similar deck with him so when I saw his deck I "had" to support him. But besides that I liked the way he pointed out his team work when interviewed and I really enjoyed his post win article on tcg player. Good luck in the future Craig!
Alejandro Matos Anguis I played G/W last format and actually thought Esper was a fairly good match up. Out of curiosity, what are you playing during Theros/Khans?
yes this is obviously drafted, you can see what they were going for, make sure that they get every rare that everyone opened and made sure that those rares match their decks, and not to mention to pick atleast 12 shock lands that they opened in the packs
One of my favorite games was me playing White Weenie with 2 Judge's Familiar, my opponent Verdicts, I sac one bird, he tanks for a bit, pays the one. So I sac the other, he immediately pays, and as he's putting the Verdict in his graveyard "Ugh I suck soooo bad"
@Niall to. Me it looked like he was running both. With the three color deck and greedy cards like Revelation, those are more beneficial than the shocks in orzhov. The dimir gate helped give hI'm the needed black and blue. See what I'm saying
Yeah you have to think of it from his view, he had no idea what was in his had except that he knew he could get rid of more. No use in wasting a Verdict if he's just gonna drop more creatures afterwards
His third pro tour, actually. Dusty is the best player in Arizona, he just doesn't have a very deep base of players to test formats with. The fact that he managed a PT top 8 without a top-notch testing team like Channel Fireball or SCG is in and of itself pretty fantastic.
Jace starts at 4 loyalty and the +1 ability gives opponent's creatures -1/-0 until your next turn so the 2/2, 3/3, and 2/1 are actually just a 1/2, 2/3, and 1/1 which comes to 4 and Jace was at 5 (5-4=1)
Oh, yeah that makes sense. I didn't even look at his +1, I assumed it was some sort of draw haha. This is random, but what do you think about putting a Bonfire of the Damned in a Naya midrange?
It appeared that he didn't think about verdict being uncounterable. Because there was a pause, and you hear a judge say something. So I think he just forgot. The announcers making a joke about it doesn't automatically mean Wesoe was joking.
It wasn't a play mistake. It was a calculated risk that Ochoa was doing to try and make wescoe commit more to the board then what was there. Overall it ended up being the wrong play but it was still the better option to wait.
I'm no pro either, but the main reason I hold up a wrath is to get more value out of it. I'm guessing Ochoa was hoping Wescoe would tap out playing creatures and thought that the five life was worth the card advantage. As it turns out, he was a bit too greedy and lost the gamble.
You are wrong, the card specifically states "If a creature dealt damage this way WOULD die this turn, exile it INSTEAD. For a creature to actually die it must go to the graveyard, but with pillar of flame it gets exiled instead. If you don't trust me, go on google and search "Voice of Resurgence vs. Pillar Flame."
He is running shocks AND gates. Usuall people would run the older dual lands as well, But this was a block match. ONLY card from RtR, GC, and DM could be used. So only 4 shock lands isn't quite enough.
The token comes from Voice of Resurgence. In addition to making a token whenever someone casts a spell on your turn, you ALSO get a token whenever Voice dies. As the commentator said, it's really an unfair card. >.
The supreme Verdict at about 3:50, why did the rest of Wescoe's creatures get destroyed? Unless I'm mistaken, Ochoa only had 4 mana open to cast the Verdict, he couldn't have paid the extra 1 to make sure it wasn't countered.
He jokingly sacrificed his judge's familiar to attempt to counter supreme verdict. Just because a spell can't be countered doesn't mean it can't be targeted by spells or abilities that would counter the spell. It only means that the counterspell or ability won't do anything.
o-ring/detention sphere you it doesnt get a token but it can still come back if the enchantment is destroyed and with pillar of flame the creature dies then is exiled, giving a token
so one -sided! such an amazing game, i know it was a bad match up but with a deck a good as ochoa'sand all is experience I thought it was going to get to the 4th game
He played down a Hallowed Fountain. He took 2 life in order to play it untapped. The life counter scoreboard went from 4 to 2 in the few seconds after he played it.
I've seen people let their Smiters be countered before now, and discard them to Lilis and not put them on the battlefield. Half of these cards are good enough for Standard without the kickers.
In the finals I think "First time" stops being an excuse. He did well, better than I've done obviously, but it was still totally wrong and he should have played better.
Jace the Mind Sculptor, yes, but Liliana of the Veil was not good in the Standard Constructed format she was legal in, due to her basically doing nothing vs. Snapcaster Mage and many other hugely popular maindeck cards, and Elspeth, while very strong and played due to her field-building, was/is honestly an underpowered planeswalker, especially with the amount of permanent removal and planeswalker hate in Alara block constructed.
I'm no master or anything, but that play mistake at 23:00 was unfathomable. Tapped out Selesnya player with Experiment and Conclave token on the board. =/= Verdict!? Lets just open up his ability to cast a Rootborn/Advent/Seles Charm.. next turn after he gets a free 5 damage in. I'm just so confused lol. Fatigue is the only possible answer.
When sphinx's revelation gets played if someone skullcracks do the cards still get drawn? Im pretty sure they do but I wanna be 100% sure. Thx in advance. Oh also if verdict gets played and Voice is out does the voice still get a 1/1 token at the end? Once again im pretty sure it does but I wanna be 100%.
